French jews

Mélenchon accused of antisemitism after claiming CRIF 'gives orders' to French ministers

French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon sparked outrage after claiming ministers “follow orders” from CRIF, triggering antisemitism accusations from officials and Jewish groups.

Founder of French left-wing party La France Insoumise (LFI) and presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon visits the VivaTech technology startups and innovation fair at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in Paris on June 19, 2026.
A View of Kiryat Menachem and Kiryat Yovel, Jerusalem

French-Israeli businessman buys eight unbuilt Jerusalem apartments for NIS 24 million

Protesters hold signs depitcting Jean-Luc Melenchon as in a mugshot and reading "Antisemite Populist, Jean-Luc Melenchon, Repeat offender, Puts a target in the back of Jews."

Proposed French sanctions will fuel antisemitism, isolate French Jews, lawyers warn

(ILLUSTRATIVE) The Louvre Museum in Paris. Archive.

Tunisian national arrested for planned terror attack on Louvre or Jewish community in Paris


'Death to Israel': French universities saw uptick in antisemitic violence after Oct.7

The report detailed that pro-Palestinian activism was largely behind the increase in antisemitism, particularly when “support for the Palestinian cause turns into an apology for terrorism.”

A general view of the occupied building of the Sciences Po University by masked youths in support of Palestinians in Gaza, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Paris, France, France, April 26, 2024.

French Jews caught between extremes in polarizing snap election

President Emmanuel Macron called the parliamentary election on June 9 after his centrist Together alliance was trounced in European elections.

 People attend a demonstration against antisemitism in front of Paris City Hall after three teenagers aged 12 to 13 indicted in Courbevoie, accused of rape and anti-Semitic violence against a 12-year-old girl, in Paris, France, June 19, 2024. The slogan reads "Do not sacrifice the French Jews".

Marine Le Pen's National Rally is better for French Jews than the left, says Nazi-hunter

“The National Rally supports Jews, supports the state of Israel,” said historian, lawyer and Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld. But do French Jews agree?

 BEATE AND Serge Klarsfeld.

French-Jewish actress Anouk Aimée dies at 92, daughter confirms

Aimée had a glamour and elegance that caught on just as post-war audiences around the world were falling in love with French films, making her into an international sensation in the 1960s.

 Anouk Aimee in A Man and a Woman (1966).

French court overturns ban on Israeli companies from Eurosatory arms exhibition

The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) and Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) welcomed the decision.

 A visitor walks in Israel's pavilion during the Eurosatory International Defence Exhibition, 2022

French conservative leader embraces Marine Le Pen’s far-right party with history of antisemitism

Even as Marine Le Pen has publicly denounced antisemitism, her supporters still disproportionately harbor antisemitic attitudes.

President of the French conservative party Les Republicains and member of Parliament Eric Ciotti and far-right National Rally president Marine Le Pen attend a session of the National Assembly in Paris, April 4, 2023.

How D-Day saved Europe, and my family, from the Nazis

For me, D-Day is a day of personal contemplation and of profound thanks to those who sacrificed that I might live.

 The author's grandparents and his mother in front of their building in Paris, ca. 1940. At rear, surface weather analysis map shows weather fronts in and around Normandy on June 5, 1944.

October 7 survivor stuns Cannes in 'Bring them Home' dress decorated with the hostages's faces

Laura Blajman-Kadar was at the Nova music festival on the day of the massacre and managed to hide with her husband and seven friends as they heard gunshots and killing all around them.

Laura Blajman-Kadar, survivor of the October 7 attack wearing a scarf reading "Bring them home" and a dress with portraits of the hostages, protests on the red carpet, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza.

Are French Jews making aliyah because of antisemitism or Zionism?

French Jews are very Zionist and have strong connections to Israel, said Sion, and many have wanted to move to Israel and come to help build up the state for a long time.

Jewish Agency for Israel chairman Isaac Herzog and Keren Hayesod Chairman Sam Grundwerg pose with French immigrants as they disembark from their aliya flight.

Paris assailant calls man in kippah 'dirty Jew,' attacks him as he leaves synagogue - report

“Everything is being done to find the author of this unspeakable act,” wrote Gerald Darmanin, the French Interior Minister, on X.

 French police patrol on the Champs Elysees avenue near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, as the French government puts the nation on its highest state of alert after a deadly knife attack in northern France, October 16, 2023.